If nothing else is specifically noted for a certain event the following General Admission Policy applies:
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5, members FREE
Free street parking.
* This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Beyond Baroque is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Please send all your inquiries concerning our events to bbproposals@gmail.com
Event schedule is subject to change without prior notice.
MAY 2012
17 May, Thursday - 7:30 PM
WHAT? NO! SHUT UP!
Live storytelling brought to you by HENRY MORTENSEN and GEOFF SCHOENBERG.
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18 May, Friday - 7:30 PM
RUSSELL THORBURN: NEW WORKS
RUSSELL THORBURN reads from two new books celebrating American misfits. In Misfit Hearts, through a sequence of poems, he chronicles the lives of CLARK GABLE, MARILYN MONROE and MONTGOMERY CLIFT, on location for JOHN HUSTON’s film of The Misfits. Desert Moon, an innovative neo noir, introduces a private eye from L.A. searching for his lost daughter in Mexico, with JACK NICHOLSON as a character who tags along with his pyrotechnic assistant from Hollywood.
Russell Thorburn
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19 May, Saturday - 7:00 PM
ANDREW ALLPORT AND STEVE WESTBROOK
ANDREW ALLPORT is the author of two books, The Ice Ship and Other Vessels, and the body of space in the shape of a human, which won the 2010 New Issues Prize. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, zyzzyva, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Online, his work can be found at the Poetry Foundation
website, and the online journals Blackbird and The Offending Adam. He lives in Culver City.
Andrew Allport
STEVE WESTBROOK is an associate professor of English at California State University Fullerton, where he teaches courses in rhetoric, poetics and cultural studies. He is also a co-owner of Hibbleton Art Gallery, the coolest thing to hit Orange County since the ice storm of 1927. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including Clementine, Conduit, Good Foot, Little Latte, the Los Angeles Review, Prism Review and Rattle.
Steve Westbrook
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19 May, Saturday - 9:00 PM
ELLYN MAYBE'S POETRY RODEO AND POTLUCK PARTY
Open reading featuring L.A.'s inimitable ELLYN MAYBE BAND. Bring up to five minutes of poetry, and the band will improvise alongside your performance! Bring whatever you'd like for the potluck.
General Admission: $8.00, Students & Seniors $5.00, Members FREE.
Ellyn Maybe
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20 May, Sunday - 2:00 PM
THE GREAT BEYOND OPEN READING
Our every-third-Sunday open reading series hosted
by ELLIS MARTIN welcomes poets and writers of all ages.
5-minute limit. FREE. Sign-up starts at 1:45 PM.
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20 May, Sunday - 5:00 PM
PAUL LIEBER AND ABY KAUPANG POETRY
PAUL LIEBER’s collection, Chemical Tendencies, published by Tebot Bach, was a finalist in the MSR poetry contest. Paul also received an honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Contest. Paul produces and hosts “Why Poetry” on KPFK radio in L.A. and Santa Barbara. His poems have appeared in The Patterson Review, Askew, Alimentum, New York Quarterly, Solo and many other journals. Paul works as an actor and has performed on and off-Broadway as well as in numerous films and TV shows. He has enjoyed being a facilitator at the Wednesday night Beyond Baroque Poetry workshop. He holds a B.A. from C.C.N.Y. and an M.F.A. from Antioch. He lives in Venice, CA with his wife and son. Visit his website at www.paullieber.com.
Paul Lieber
ABY KAUPANG, author of Absence is Such a Transparent House (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2008), has had poems appear in Best New Poets, Word For/Word, La Petite Zine, Dusie, Verse, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, Parcel, Aufgabe, 14 Hills, Interim, Caketrain, Shampoo and others. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and will complete her MS in Occupational Therapy later this year. She lives in Colorado with the poet MATTHEW COOPERMAN.
Aby Kaupang
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20 May, Sunday - 7:30 PM
IN THE TRENCHES: RD ARMSTRONG
Laboring in obscurity, RD ARMSTRONG has managed to carve out a niche in the L.A. Poetry scene. He is known both for his poetry and his micro-publishing enterprise, the Lummox Press, which has published both known and unknown poets over the last 18 years.
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24 May, Thursday - 7:30 PM
SESSIONS PERFORMANCE
A collaborative performance piece, SESSIONS was co-written at the same time in the same room by RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA and SHARON RIZK.
Written from the point of view of a therapist and a patient, and rich in language, human nature and wisdom, SESSIONS echoes with burning questions and answers about the human experience, and is written by two poets who bounce off of one another, yet have their own striking style and substance.
In the last two years, RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA has published five books, including The Café Latte Tapes; The Last Collection and The Fourth Nut House in September and recorded three spoken word CD’s, including In The Dark of Morn and Nothing Water. His poems have been published in over 40 literary journals, anthologies and on websites such as Nerve Cowboy, Askew, New Laurel Review, Poetic Diversity, and Spare Change. He has featured 60+ times across the country and has organized as well as hosted ten readings in places such as New York City, Northern, NJ; Ft. Walton Beach, FL and Los Angeles, CA.
He starred in nine short films, including as Arm in Curious Tumor, which he wrote, directed and produced. He is a Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity Union Actor.
SHARON RIZK was born in Oregon in 1943. She has spent the majority of her life in various
communities within Los Angeles County, although her first few highly formative years of
schooling occurred in San Francisco.
She received a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature as a young adult, and returned to school as an older adult to earn a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She currently has a private psychotherapy practice in Pasadena, CA, teaches at a local community college and provides clinical supervision for psychotherapy interns and trainees at various agencies.
Sharon is a published poet and has one CD collection of her original work, The Shadow of Your Longing: Poems to Grow With, available on Amazon.com. She also has conducted several free writing workshops for the community over the past two years and facilitated a low-fee weekend writing retreat at the end of September, 2011.
Sharon Rizk
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25 May, Friday - 7:00 PM
TWO SURREAL WOMEN:
JANICE LEE AND TISA BRYANT
Poetry of the surreal nature, curated by poet-in-residence,
WILL ALEXANDER.JANICE LEE and TISA BRYANT are two charismatic stylists who are shaping their own view. JANICE LEE, author of Kerotakis and Daughter, winner of best non fiction for Black Warrior Review, and TISA BRYANT, author of Unexplained Presence, are described by Brenda Coultas as "A brilliant accomplishment."
JANICE LEE is a writer, artist, editor, designer and curator. She is interested in the relationships between metaphors of consciousness and theoretical neuroscience, and experimental narrative. Her work can be found in Zafusy and elsewhere. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains and the stakes of consciousness, Daughter (Jaded Ibis, May 2011) and a chapbook, Red Trees. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is co-editor of the online journal [out of nothing], co-founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe, reviews editor at HTMLGIANT, and founder/CEO of POTG Design. Janice has previously worked as the associate editor of Les Figues Press, co-curator of the feminist reading series Mommy, Mommy! and co-editor of the now extinct experimental literary publication, Pulp.
Janice Lee
TISA BRYANT is the author of Unexplained Presence, a cross-genre examination of “black presences in European literature, visual art and film.” Her works combine elements of film criticism, fiction and even prose poetry to look at the construction of black identity within various cultural productions. An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books in 2009, in a companion volume with writer Chris Kraus. She is also the author of the chapbook, Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000), a prose poem collage of narratives including a Barbados genealogy, a Passover seder and a film by Yvonne Rainer. She is interested in archives, hybrid forms, mythologies, ethnicity and innovation, the interdependence of experimental and conventional fiction, cinematic novels and ekphrastic writing. Bryant’s writing has appeared in Evening Will Come, Mandorla, Mixed Blood, in the ‘zine, Universal Remote: Meditations on the Absence of Michael Jackson and in the catalogues and solo shows of visual artists Laylah Ali, Jaime Cortez, Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Cauleen Smith. She is co-editor, with Ernest Hardy, of War Diaries, an anthology of black gay male desire and survival, from AIDS Project Los Angeles, which was nominated Best LGBTQ anthology by the LAMBDA Literary Awards. She is also co-editor/publisher of the hardcover cross-referenced literary/arts series, The Encyclopedia Project, which recently released Encyclopedia Vol. 2 F-K.
Tisa Bryant
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26 May, Saturday - 9:00 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: FORMALIST QUARTET
BEYOND MUSIC SERIES, curated and hosted by Daniel Rothman, is an innovative series promoting music specifically of genres outside (beyond) those that are more commonly heard at commercial venues, such as clubs.
FORMALIST QUARTET celebrates its fifth anniversary with music by its namesake Shostakovich Quartet No. 5, and new works by three of its four composer members, ANDREW MCINTOSH, ANDREW THOLL and MARK MENZIES.
Special Admission $10.00, members $5.00.
Formalist Quartet
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27 May, Sunday - 6:00 PM
THE 5TH ANNUAL WES FILER VARIETY HOUR
A Night of Music, Comedy and Art Featuring:
CROOKED COWBOY & THE FRESHWATER INDIANS
AHKIYYINI
MILO GONZALES (Insects vs. Robots)
EMEEN ZAROOKIAN (Spirit Kid)
MAGGIE LANE
Artwork from:
JULES MUCK
NATHAN SESTACK
CHRISTY SMITH
JAKE ZAMBAS
HARRISON RAMSAY
COURTNEY BRANCH
DOMINIC JAMES
DANIEL PARK
Hosted by: ARMEN WEITZMAN
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31 May, Thursday - 7:30 PM
POETS & WRITERS: CROSS CULTURAL READING
More info to be announced soon.
JUNE 2012
1 June, Friday - 30 June, 2012
IN THE MIKE KELLEY GALLERY: (SO) "IT" (SEEMS) - NEW WORK BY GREGORY HICKS
Opening Reception 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
GREGORY HICKS uses his past works as his medium for present and future works. He believes consciousness to be a redundant concept unless we are living in a virtual reality. We have looked into the darkness and have changed what is into what is seen...The show includes acrylic paintings, photo-collages and collages.
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2 June, Saturday - 4:00 PM
BEYOND THE BELL:
STUDENT POETS ANTHOLOGY READING
The students from the Beyond Baroque Student Poets
Program read poems written in the Winter 2012 workshop
led by California Poets in the Schools instructors. Come
out and support these budding poets. The Student Poets
Program is supported by a grant from The James Irvine
Foundation. FREE event!
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2 June, Saturday - 7:30 PM
GERRY FIALKA - MEZZ MEZROW: WORDS & MUSIC
MESSIN' With MEZZ MEZZROW - GERRY FIALKA and JAZZBOS reinvent the seminal music book Really The Blues by MEZZ MEZZROW (Louis Armstrong's herbalist) and BERNARD WOLFE (cybernetics pioneer) with Live-music, readings and rare film clips. Mezz influenced everybody from HENRY MILLER to the Beats to TOM WAITS to gangster rappers.
Wolfe's words best describe what's on tap in "Really the Blues": "Not very many people have gotten a good look at their country from that bottom-of-the-pit angle before, seen the slimy underside of the rock. It's a chunk of Americana, as they say, and should get written. It's a real American success story, upside down: Horatio Alger standing on his head. In a real sense, Mezz, your story is the plight of the creative artist in the USA. And to borrow a phrase from HENRY MILLER ... It's the odyssey of an individualist, through a land where the population is manufactured by the system of interchangeable parts. It's the saga of a guy who wanted to make friends in a jungle where everybody was too busy making money and dodging his own shadow."
Hosted by GERRY FIALKA. FREE event!
Gerry Fialka
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3 June, Sunday - 5:00 PM
FIRST FREE SUNDAY OPEN READING
Our popular monthly open reading. Hosted by BILLY BURGOS. Sign-up at 4:45 PM.
FREE event.
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7 June, Thursday - 5:00 PM
BECOMING A SPIRITUAL RENEGADE -WITH LAMA MARUT
Kicking off the U.S. tour of “A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life” in LA, LAMA MARUT discusses what it takes to become a spiritual renegade in the City of Angels. The new release from Beyond Words (publishers of “The Secret”) is an insightful, entertaining and practical guidebook for people who are desperate enough to take up arms and make a revolutionary inner change in their lives.
The son and grandson of Baptist ministers, Ph.D. of Comparative Religions at Columbia University, motorcycle enthusiast, surfer and fully-ordained American Buddhist monk, Venerable Sumati Marut deftly integrates Tibetan Buddhism with everyday life to offer a radical yet realistic guide to incite and sustain happiness in a complex, modern age. To learn more, please visit www.lamamarut.org.
Lama Marut
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7 June, Thursday - 7:00 PM
7 DUDLEY CINEMA SERIES - REJOYCE BLOOMSDAY
7 DUDLEY CINEMA screens every first Thursday from 7-10pm, free admission. For more info visit this link or call ph: 310-306-7330. GERRY FIALKA screens experimental films to political activist cinema to lit, art, music flix to avant garde documentaries, with fiery discussions.
REJOYCE BLOOMSDAY - Celebrate JAMES JOYCE's Bloomsday with live performances and ultra rare film clips of Joyce and Marshall McLuhan, whose translation of Finnegans Wake reveals the cloned ESP of global memory theater probing.
Hosted by GERRY FIALKA.
FREE event.
Gerry Fialka
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8 June, Friday - 7:30 PM
READING: JAMES B. GOLDEN READS FROM AFRO CLOUDS & NAPPY RAIN
JAMES B. GOLDEN will be spotlighting several of his poems from his NAACP Image Award nominated book, Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain. Golden will engage the audience in a whirlwind of anecdotes, which highlight the depth of his poems. He touches on various topics: cultural and gender identity, domestic violence, hopelessness, racism, sexual violence and faith. At the conclusion of the presentation, there will be an author Q&A session.
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9 June, Saturday - 4:00 PM
CLIVE MATSON: THE "CRAZY CHILD" WRITING WORKSHOP
Writing workshops are exercises in magic. The entire creative unconscious operates according to its own logic, by definition a logic we know nothing about. When we dip into our creative source, we're dipping into magic. But often, we get blocked by our internal "editor", that naysayer in our heads who must control and micromanage the gold that comes out of the creative unconscious. This is where our "Crazy Child" comes in, the unedited genius of our creative source. We let that child write, uninhibited by the internal editor, and take the writing into new and energetic territory. The aim of this workshop is to help the writer learn the primary impulse of his or her writing and help it come to fruition. Through giving each other positive feedback, the writers in the group mirror to the author what the reader hears, and what the reader finds memorable. The workshop is offered to writers of all levels, from beginners and intermediate-level writers to professionals who want to expand their horizons. The goal is for each writer to come away from the workshop with enthusiasm and a heightened sense of their own power as a writer.
CLIVE MATSON (MFA Columbia University) was drafted as Chalcedony’s (kal-SAID-'n-ease) astonished scribe in 2004. His early teachers were Beats in New York City, and, amazingly, his seventh book was placed in John Wieners' coffin. He became immersed in the stream of passionate intensity that runs through us all, and has finally stopped trying to go anywhere else. He writes from the itch in his body, to the delight of his students, and that old hat, according to Let the Crazy Child Write! (1998), the text he uses to make his living, teaching creative writing. He enjoys playing basketball, table tennis and collecting minerals in the field. He lives in Oakland, California, where he helps bringing up his young teenage son, Ezra. Visit Clive at www.matsonpoet.com.
Clive Matson
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9 June, Saturday - 7:00 PM
CLIVE MATSON AND STEVE KOWIT READING
CLIVE MATSON (MFA Columbia University) was drafted as Chalcedony’s (kal-SAID-'n-ease) astonished scribe in 2004. His early teachers were Beats in New York City, and, amazingly, his seventh book was placed in John Wieners' coffin. He became immersed in the stream of passionate intensity that runs through us all, and has finally stopped trying to go anywhere else. He writes from the itch in his body, to the delight of his students, and that old hat, according to Let the Crazy Child Write! (1998), the text he uses to make his living, teaching creative writing. He enjoys playing basketball, table tennis and collecting minerals in the field. He lives in Oakland, California, where he helps bringing up his young teenage son, Ezra. Visit Clive at www.matsonpoet.com.
Clive Matson
STEVE KOWIT has published several collections of his poetry plus an anthology of accessible American poetry, The Maverick Poets, and a well-known book about writing poetry: In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop. He is the poetry editor of Serving House Journal and currently teaches in the MFA program at San Diego State University.
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9 June, Saturday - 9:00 PM
JIMMY CVETIC & S.A. GRIFFIN
JIMMY CVETIC, aka Dog, is a retired Allegheny County cop who writes like Bukowski with a badge. Having worked for over 30 years in Pittsburgh as a uniformed officer, an undercover narcotics agent, and a homicide detective, Cvetic offers a unique glimpse into the real life trials, tribulations, and black humor of police work. Having amassed over three thousand poems over the past fourdecades, he bears witness to the full range of the human drama - from horrific tragedies to dark comedies of folly.
S.A. GRIFFIN, a poet and DJ for killradio.org and co- editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, was awarded The Firecracker Award as best in alternative press, and named Best Performance Poet by WANDA COLEMAN for the LA Weekly in 1989. Griffin has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada with Los Angeles based poetry/performance ensemble, The Carma Bums.
S.A. Griffin
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14 June, Thursday - 7:30 PM
BLOOMSDAY: SELECTED READINGS FROM JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES BY JOE PRAML
Selected readings from JAMES JOYCE’s Ulysses, universally considered to be the foremost work of fiction of the 20th century. JOE PRAML’s love and enthusiasm for this novel, its unique, quintessential characters, and the city of Dublin, bring out both the profundity and ribald comedy of this great literary work.
JOE PRAML, a St. Paul, MN native, spent 14 years in London as an actor, writer and director. Credits include BBC-TV’s Alec Guinness productions of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy and Smiley’s People. In Los Angeles, he worked as an actor in TV and film and as a director in local LA theatres, where he won a Hollywood Drama-Logue Award for Directing. He left the entertainment business in the mid-80s, when he became involved as a community organizer and is a founding member of Coalition for Economic Survival’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic where people come for free legal advice. Two years ago, he returned to the business as reader of poetry at theatres, libraries, festivals and colleges. Last year, he directed a play at the Raven Playhouse located in the North Hollywood Arts District to excellent reviews. He is a member of the International James Joyce Foundation.
Joe Praml
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15 June, Friday - 7:30 PM
READING: FRANK MUNDO
FRANK MUNDO is the author of The Brubury Tales and Gary, the Four-Eyed Fairy and Other Stories. An ambitious homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Brubury Tales takes Chaucer's story and frame to Los Angeles just after the riots, where seven security guards on the graveyard shift swap tales in a hilarious storytelling competition for Christmas vacation time. The Brubury Tales won a Poet Laureate Award nomination from UCLA and Berkeley, the Reader Views 2011 Reviewers Choice Award for Poetry Book of the Year, and the 2011 Bookhitch Award for Most Innovative Poetry Book of the Year. This unique novel-in-verse also contains a special foreword by California literary legend, CAROLYN SEE, who says, “The Brubury Tales is a landmark book, in what is going to be -- and already is -- an exceptional, distinguished literary career.”
Frank Mundo
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16 June, Saturday - 7:00 PM
AUSTIN STRAUS AND LUIS CAMPOS BIRTHDAY READING
Two old friends and master wordsmiths AUSTIN STRAUS and LUIS CAMPOS celebrate their respective birthdays. Join them for fun, food and friendship (with a little poetry too!)
AUSTIN STRAUS is a poet and visual artist. He was host and producer of The Poetry Connexion on Pacifica Radio (1981-1996). He has worked for human rights with Amnesty International and other groups. He has taught English, art and philosophy, and has conducted poetry workshops. He also creates paintings, collages and prints, but his specialty is unique artists’ books (in public and private collections including Mills College and the Athenaeum). His poetry books from Red Hen Press include Drunk with Light (2002) and Intensifications (2010). Strauss has been married to poet and writer Wanda Coleman for 30 years.
Austin Straus
Poet/humourist LUIS CAMPOS was born to write. At the age of 13 he edited, published and distributed EL Fuego in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This humorous daily included neighborhood/city gossip, funny stories, etc. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1948 and eventually settled in Los Angeles. He is the proud grandfather of Roya, daughter of his only son Larry and his wife, Mitra. Luis began writing poetry in 1968 and joined the Venice Poetry Workshop in 1969. His poem Shooting on W. 92nd St. won first prize in the Bay Area Poets' Coalition contest in 1984. In 1985 he won second prize in the same contest with the poem For Lease. In the same year, he won Electrum Magazine's Unknown Reader Award for his poem Electric Poem in AC Minor. He has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Electrum Magazine, Venice Beachhead, Lummox Journal, New American & Canadian Poetry Magazine, Bachy, Venice 13 and many others.
Luis Campos
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16 June, Saturday - 9:00 PM
ELLYN MAYBE'S POETRY RODEO AND POTLUCK PARTY
Open reading featuring L.A.'s inimitable ELLYN MAYBE BAND. Bring up to five minutes of poetry, and the band will improvise alongside your performance! Bring whatever you'd like for the potluck.
General Admission: $8.00, Students & Seniors $5.00, Members FREE.
Ellyn Maybe
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17 June, Sunday - 2:00 PM
THE GREAT BEYOND OPEN READING
Our every-third-Sunday open reading series hosted
by ELLIS MARTIN welcomes poets and writers of all ages.
5-minute limit. FREE. Sign-up starts at 1:45 PM.
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17 June, Sunday - 5:00 PM
HITCHED
Our monthly reading series that couples established poets and writers with their emerging counterparts as a way of celebrating accomplishments, welcoming new voices, and broadening community.
Featuring EVE BRANDSTEIN, SUSAN HAYDEN and, in celebration of Father’s Day, STEVE ABEE and his children.
Hosted by XOCHITL-JULIA BERMEJO.
Besides being a poet, EVE BRANDSTEIN has been a major studio and network executive, a producer, a film and theater director, writer/creator and casting director. She is also an artist, psychotherapist, teacher and workshop facilitator, who has led writing and performance groups. Her poetry appears in national publications and she is one of the organizers of the celebrated reading series – Poetry In Motion, launched in 1988. Eve is once again producing Poetry in Motion as a monthly series at the venerated home of Los Angeles' poetry, Beyond Baroque and launching the series in NYC in 2012. She is a publisher of The Hollywood Review, an anthology of L.A. poets and also the author of The Actor – A Practical Guide to a Professional Career, plus has published several collections and anthologies of poetry chapbooks. Recently, she co-produced and co-directed 13 episodes of John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You. Currently, she is directing theater projects in NY and LA, including SUZANNE WHANG's Cracked Open, Let Go and Let Gook, RICK OVERTON's Substitute Global Ambassador and the NY premiere of Revisiting Wildfire. As an accomplished artist, her work is shown at TAG Gallery at Bergamot Station, Los Angeles. Her next poetry collection will be published and distributed by Zeitgeist Press.
Eve Brandstein
SUSAN HAYDEN is a poet, novelist and playwright. Her plays have been produced at The Met Theatre, South Coast Rep’s Nexus workshop, Mark Taper Forum’s Other Voices, Padua Playwrights, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s WinterFest and, most recently, as a part of Café Plays at the Ruskin Group Theatre. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies including Storie: All Write, The Black Body and on Jew-ish.com. Her novel, Cat Stevens Saved My Life, was a Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award with Penguin Press. Hayden was the co-producer of the long-running performance-fiction series Gas/Food/Lodging at the Lost Studio and is the creator/producer of Library Girl, a monthly mixed-genre literary at the Ruskin. She lives in Santa Monica with her teenaged balladeer son, Mason Summit.
Susan Hayden
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17 June, Sunday - 7:30 PM
TONY BARNSTONE PROGRAM
More details tba later.
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21 June, Thursday - 7:30 PM
WHAT? NO! SHUT UP!
Live storytelling brought to you by HENRY MORTENSEN and GEOFF SCHOENBERG.
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22 June, Friday - 7:00 PM
LECTURES FROM BEYOND
What is "Post Beat"?
Speaker will be BILL MOHR. More info to follow soon.
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22 June, Friday - 9:00 PM
POETRY IN MOTION - "SONS"
EVE BRANDSTEIN presents the usual array of writers from the Hollywood community and the literary world at large. With MASON ALLPORT, BEN BRANDSTEIN, DAN KWONG, MICHAEL DES BARRES and many many more.
Special admission $10.00, MEMBERS FREE.
Eve Brandstein
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23 June, Saturday - 7:00 PM
READING: BARBARA KRAFT ON ANAÏS NIN
“I have chosen to reveal the intimacies of ANAÏS NIN’s last days as I witnessed them so that the story of her death is not lost. Everything comes back in the mind’s eye. Everything comes back in the crucible of the heart. She remains in my psyche all these years later as the most refined and rarified human being I have ever encountered.”
Thus begins BARBARA KRAFT’s memoir, Anaïs Nin: The Last Days. With her sometimes loving and sometimes raw prose, Kraft has captured the humanity, mortality and essence of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated and yet mysterious literary figures.
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23 June, Saturday - 9:00 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: BEYOND TWELVE/
REINVENTING THE PIANO
BEYOND MUSIC SERIES, curated and hosted by Daniel Rothman, is an innovative series promoting music specifically of genres outside (beyond) those that are more commonly heard at commercial venues, such as clubs.
MicroFest and Beyond Music at Beyond Baroque present:
BEYOND TWELVE/
REINVENTING THE PIANO
With ARON KALLAY.
ARON KALLAY, piano concert pianist and MicroFest assistant director, commissioned new works from ten of America’s most imaginative composers, with two ground rules:
1) Re-tune the keyboard, from extended just intonation to 88 equal-divisions of the octave and everything in between.
2) Re-map the keyboard, left can be right, high can be low; pitches need not be linear.
The concert will premier these inventive and visionary new works, plus the winning pieces from UnTwelve’s 2012 International Composition Competition.
Pianist/composer Dr. ARON KALLAY has been praised as possessing “that special blend of intellect, emotion and overt physicality that makes even the thorniest scores simply leap from the page into the listener’s laps.”
Aron is a champion of contemporary composers, microtonal music and music that combines electronics with acoustic instruments. As such, he is dedicated to expanding the repertoire by commissioning new works that challenge the idea of what it means to be a pianist in the 21st century. He has appeared at numerous new music festivals, including MicroFest, Jacaranda, In Frequency, Hear Now, What’s Next and the Other Minds Festival.
Aron is the co-director and co-founder of People Inside Electronics (PIE), a concert series that features new and classic electro-acoustic music. Currently, Aron divides his time between practicing, performing, composing, writing about music theory and piano pedagogy and teaching. He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California and Chapman University, where he teaches music technology, electro-acoustic media and piano. Aron is an artist-in-residence with Catalysis Projects.
MicroFest:
In its second decade of celebrating the beauty that lies "between the keys" of the piano, MicroFest is the world's leading concert series devoted to the glorious universe of non-standard tunings. Founded by microtonal guitarist and radio personality JOHN SCHNEIDER in 1997, MicroFest has grown to a festival of several separate events at Southern California venues ranging from Valencia to Claremont, Woodland Hills to Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA. MicroFest has included ground-breaking concerts and premieres of works by BEN JOHNSTON, LOU HARRISON, TERRY RILEY and HARRY PARTCH with new and historical instruments. MicroFest is co-directed by Schneider and composer BILL ALVES, and assistant-directed by pianist ARON KALLAY.
Special Admission $10.00, members $5.00.
Aron Kallay
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29 June, Friday - 8:00 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: 3 STOPPAGES ÉTALON
BEYOND MUSIC SERIES, curated and hosted by Daniel Rothman, is an innovative series promoting music specifically of genres outside (beyond) those that are more commonly heard at commercial venues, such as clubs.
Beyond Music presents composer-in-residence DANIEL ROTHMAN with friends ASHLEY WALTERS, ANDREW MCINTOSH, WOLFGANG VON SCHWEINITZ, JIM SULLIVAN and BRIAN WALSH.
3 stoppages étalon (3 standard stoppages) is what MARCEL DUCHAMP titled a work that measures a meter by dropping three meter-length strings from the height of a meter. Beyond Baroque composer-in-residence DANIEL ROTHMAN presents his own non-standard work for solo strings during an evening with music by his friends WOLFGANG VON SCHWEINITZ and ANDREW MCINTOSH, performed by violist ANDREW MCINTOSH and cellist ASHLEY WALTERS. Please join us for an evening of 3 Stoppages Non-étalon.
Special Admission $10.00, members $5.00.
Wolfgang von Schweinitz
Daniel Rothman
Beyond Baroque
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